SpaceX Has an AI Device Prototype. Elon Musk Says It Is Nothing.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device, sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, somewhere between a compact touchscreen phone and a Rabbit R1. The reaction from Musk was immediate and…
OpenAI’s Latest Idea: Give 5% of the Company to the American Public
The sovereign wealth fund proposal is the most interesting thing OpenAI has done that has nothing to do with models. On July 2nd, the Financial Times reported that Sam Altman has proposed donating 5% of OpenAI’s equity to a US sovereign wealth fund, and…
Microsoft Is Putting $2.5 Billion Behind a New AI Deployment Company
Microsoft Is Putting $2.5 Billion Behind a New AI Deployment Company On July 2nd, Microsoft announced something that does not quite fit neatly into any existing category. It is launching a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company, backed…
Venice AI Just Hit Unicorn Status at $1B. The Privacy Pitch Is Actually Working.
Two years ago, if you told investors there was a startup charging people extra to use AI models without having their conversations logged, most would have laughed. The general assumption was that privacy was a niche concern, a checkbox item for paranoids…
Apple’s Vision Pro Hardware Chief Just Defected to OpenAI. Here’s Why That Matters
Paul Meade spent years making Vision Pro happen at Apple. He was the guy who turned Apple’s mixed reality headset from a joke into something people actually wear in public without looking completely ridiculous — which, given Apple’s design…
When Two Harvard Dropouts Took on NVIDIA
Then TSMC fabricated its first batch of chips in 2025, and the conversation changed. By the end of June 2026, Etched had assembled something that looks less like a typical startup and more like a financial institutions reunion. The company quietly closed…
The Vision Pro Chief Is Going to OpenAI, and It Tells Us Something About Apple’s Wearable Bet
Paul Meade spent years at Apple overseeing both the Vision Pro headset line and the unreleased AI smart glasses project. When he told colleagues he was leaving for OpenAI, the industry reaction was closer to a shrug than a shock. That is actually the…
The US Government Tried to Restrict an AI Model. Cybersecurity Veterans Are Pushing Back
A week later, 76 veterans from the cybersecurity industry published an open letter demanding the government reverse the order. The signatories read like a who’s who of internet defensive infrastructure: Alex Stamos, former head of security at…
Ford Called Back 350 Engineers After AI QA Failed. The Lesson Is Useful for Every Automaker.
Ford is not the only automaker that has stumbled with AI. GM tried replacing full-time engineers with contractors a few years ago to cut costs, and ended up with quality problems and an internal culture crisis before reversing course. FCA (now…
Cloudflare Just Made AI Companies Choose: Pay Up or Get Blocked
OpenAI's Daybreak update brings GPT-5.5-Cyber, Codex Security automation, and Patch the Planet — the security tools that might actually matter for SOC teams.
Meta AI Glasses Now Look Normal — And Cost $299
The latest Ray-Ban Meta glasses look like actual glasses, cost $299, and represent the first generation of smart eyewear that normal people might actually buy.
AMD Graphics Cards Can Now Run NVIDIA’s Physics Engine. Here’s Why That Matters for Older Games
If you have an AMD graphics card and have been watching game benchmarks for years with a specific kind of envy, today’s your day. ZLUDA v6 dropped on June 29, 2026, and the headline feature is simple: AMD Radeon GPUs can now run NVIDIA’s…